/fa/ - Fashion

>>8023467
Not really
Most of his collections at Number (N)ine were pretty derivative of other designers (Especially Ann) and he drew far too heavily from his real life inspiration, even if the manufacturing was fantastic. When he had good collections, they were legitimately fantastic (AW09) but so much of his work was extremely choppy, he just moved around from aesthetic to aesthetic, and rather than incorporating these ideas into a Number (N)ine universe or something similar, every collection was quite radically different. There's very little coherence in Number (N)ine's world.
He's a much better stylist than he is a designer to be honest.
That being said, he seems to be pretty consistent with The Soloist so far, I guess you could cite that as credentials for "best of all time status", but the label isn't that old, and comparing him to Ann, Rick, Walter, Maurizio, Carol, etc, I think it's hard to call him the best